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Here are today's news headlines:

1) Ione City Council meeting for March 19th not cancelled

2) Sutter Creek receives 715 protests over proposed ACES solid waste rate increase

3) Five Lake Camanche Village redwood water storage tanks receive new plastic liners at no cost

4) RCRC requesting comments on provision of AB 823

5) RCRC announces support for AB 115

6) Amador Calaveras Consensus Group to meet on March 20th

7) KQBM issued license to broadcast on 90.7 FM

8) BloodSource to hold local blood drives on April 8th and 9th

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The regular scheduled meeting of the Ione City Council for tonight March 19 6:00PM at Ione City Hall, 1 E. Main Street, Ione, CA Has Not been Canceled.

Janice Traverso, City Clerk, City of Ione. Has informed me that several people come into City Hall stating that TSPN announced that Janice Traverso called me and said the meeting was cancelled for tonight. Janice Traverso did not call me I received a email from her that the agenda was posted. When I went to the City’s Website I Inadvertently misread the February 19 posting for the March 19 Agenda. The mistake was mine.

I repeat again that the Ione City Council Meeting for scheduled for tonight March 19 6:00PM Has Not been Canceled. I regret any Incontinence my mistake may have caused.

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The City of Sutter Creek received approximately 715 protests at last nights Monday, March 18 City Council Meeting. On the agenda was the a Proposition 218 hearing regarding the proposed ACES solid waste rate increase. After a lengthy public hearing, the City Council closed the hearing and continued the item to the April 1 Council meeting, to allow staff time to verify that the threshold for a valid Proposition. 218 protest was met. 588 valid protests were required.

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Five of Lake Camanche Village’s six redwood water storage tanks are getting a new lease on life with the installation of new plastic liners at no cost to Lake Camanche customers.

The Amador Water Agency crews and a specialty contractor have placed giant heavy-gauge plastic liners in the tanks to stop leaks that have plagued the 40-year old tanks. The tanks store water pumped from the Lake Camanche Village well water system, built by the subdivision’s developer in the early 1970s.

Technicians first lined the wooden tanks with a felt cushioning fabric, then sheets of plastic liner were dropped into the giant tanks and sealed together. Seams were tested and the tanks are now re-filled and back in service, all without any interruption in water service to customers.

AWA applied for and received over $550,000 in state Proposition 84 grant funds to pay for lining the tanks, and to replace approximately 200 service connections made of an early form of plastic pipe, which has been failing in the Lake Camanche Village system. Work on replacing the service connections is on-going.

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RCRC staff is requesting comments on the provisions of Assembly Bill 823 (Eggman). AB 823 would require an applicant for a project that involves the conversion of agricultural land to a permanent or long-term nonagricultural use to mitigate the identified environmental impacts associated with the conversion through the permanent protection and conservation of land suitable for agricultural use. Agricultural land is defined to mean land currently used for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity for commercial purposes, land left fallow under a crop rotational program, or land enrolled in an agricultural subsidy or set-aside program.

AB 823 also specifies certain requirements that the mitigation measures must meet, thus establishing minimum statewide mitigation standards. The text of AB 823 can be accessed here. Assembly Member Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) is the Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee.

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AB 115 (Perea) the “Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund”, bill would authorize the Department of Public Health (Department) to fund projects where multiple water systems apply for funding as a single applicant for the purpose of consolidating water systems or extending services to households relying on private wells. Additionally, the bill would authorize the Department to fund a project to benefit a disadvantaged community that is not the applying agency. The bill has passed out of the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee. RCRC position is Supportive of this bill.

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The next meeting of the Amador Calaveras Consensus Group will take place on Wednesday, March 20th, at the West Point Veterans Hall located at the corner of Highway 26 and Bald Mountain Road in West Point, CA. The meeting will begin at 9:30am.

A large part of the overall meeting will be the discussion on biomass feedstock for the Wilseyville Project.

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